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The less men think, the more they talk.

Late afternoon swim. Little Howrah Beach. January 2014. I think that I owe you a Q and A. How about the Summertime meme ? 1.) What first tells you that Summer is here? The girls are showing a lot more of their thighs. 2.) Name your five of your favourite distinctively Summer habits or customs. Swimming, snorkelling, evening runs, early-morning walks and fruit platters. 3.) What is your favourite smell of Summer? The beach. 4.) What is your favourite taste of Summer? Icy poles. 5.) Favourite Summer memory? Swimming during intense electoral storms. 6.) Extreme heat or extreme cold? Which would you choose and why? Hot hot hot! 7.) What books do you plan to read for the season? Good books! 8.) What is your favourite part of summer? Anything involving the water. 9.) What's your favourite quintessentially summer food? Least favourite? Fresh berries are my favourite. I don’t usually eat what I don’t like. 10.) Best beverage to beat the summer heat:...

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

The boys like to collect rocks to throw at me while I go out and have a snorkel. That makes Flowerpot Point the perfect place to take a dip!

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

Ice Cube or ice cube?

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

Can you believe that this guy goes to school now? Amazing...

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

Just prior to lathering myself in pig fat... Little Howrah Beach, looking west over Hobart. February 2012. What I like to do on a Watery Wednesday is knock off from work, stick the swimmers on then get my hands on a big jar of pig grease and do a couple of laps around the Derwent Estuary with the wife and kids...

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Even in summer, there remains a bit of chill to that water this far south. This does not deter the intrepid though, and we only turned back when we started bumping into icebergs…